Latin women seeking american men

Why men and women fleeĪccording to my research, Mexican men are usually displaced for reasons of criminal and state violence. We don’t know how many of them are women, because neither the US nor the UNHCR keeps track of gender by nationality in their asylum statistics, meaning that the violence many women are fleeing is rendered invisible.īut by cross-referencing displacement figures, qualitative information and case litigation databases, we do know one thing: patterns of persecution are different for men and women. Reports by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 2007 to mid-2015 indicate nearly 100,000 asylum claims filed by Mexicans in various countries, but mostly the United States. In the past few years, thousands of Mexicans have been forced to flee to the United States seeking international legal protection.